Recent content by tonyk

Not a dslr camera image, its from an iPhone 4. My friend broke down in this town once and had to call the AA and the girl on the phone near wet herself when she asked where we where. Muff by tonyk79, on Flickr

Panamoz have the a99 listed for £1842 if I recall correctly.

I don't think anybody is giving bad advice or anything like it, buts its easier to add an ssd at a later date than it is to add another CPU, especially if you consider cost. SSD are falling in price, 240gb for around £120-140 and could be £99 by years end. If he buys 16gb and its 4x4gb then it...

I agree that the extra cores of the hexcore chip will be so much better than the quad core i7 as they are "real" but that chip isn't in the op's budget. I think for the op budget £700 he would be better with i7, 32gb, ssd for os as should he start to ever use dslr video capabilities the extra...

It may not be much quicker in Lightroom than a 3570k but its still quicker and makes more sense for the future updates and versions of Lightroom that will make full use of it. It will also be better for using multiple programs at once. In my opinion Lightroom 4 should be a lot faster than what...

I previously used 8gb ram on a intel q6600 system. I notice quite a bit of difference with 32gb particularly when editing large photo files with multiple layers as I can also leave other program's or music open in the background and not worry about ram etc.. I built it to last for quite a few...

I just recently upgraded my own PC with photo & video editing in mind. Some parts like hard drives i already had so I went for; I7 3770k - £249.99 32gb ram 4*8gb 1600mhz £140 Gigabyte z77 upth4 mobo £155 2*120gb ssd drive £139.99 from PC world of all places! Nvidia gtx580 £135 from eBay Ocz...

I have been to la the last two summers and have had no issues taking photos. I've done the Holywood sign twice, there is a location that is setup for photos, some rocks that people can stand on if you want an easy composition with the sign behind the person. You can also take some pictures from...